Showing posts with label Episcopal Church USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Episcopal Church USA. Show all posts
Monday, July 29, 2019

Ruth Krall, Historical Meandering: Ideologies of Abuse and Exclusion (2)

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Vasily Polenov, Le droit du Seigneur (1874), in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow The essay below is the second part of Ruth Krall'...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Why They're Furious About Bishop Michael Curry: Worldwide Platform to Proclaim "Ferociously Political Faith in the Radical Power of Christian Love"

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Stepped into the hallway of my Chicago hotel this morning for a moment during the #RoyalWedding and through the closed doors of every si...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Recommended: Joe Biden on LGBT Rights, Catherine Wallace on Gay Marriage and Anglican Anxiety, Patricia Miller on What Pope Benedict Knew When

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God bless Joe Biden (the section I've transcribed from his recent remarks at the World Economic Forum begins at about the 1.55 mar...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

When Tea and Sympathy Are No Longer Nearly Enough: A Response to Archbishop Justin Welby's Apology to LGBT Community

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On Sunday, at his Winsome, Lose Some blog site, Anglican priest Reverend Richard Haggis published an open letter  to Archbishop of Ca...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Defining Christianity by Exclusion of LGBT Human Beings: "If This Is the Christianity They Want, Perhaps It Is Time for That Christianity to Die"

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Thinking back this morning to Kaya Oakes's post- Obergefell  essay last November: as she points out, anti-LGBT right-wing Christians...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Anglican Communion Sanctions Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop of ECUSA Responds: Commitment to Be an Inclusive Church Based on Outstretched Arms of Jesus on the Cross

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As Chris Morley has reported to us in several comments, at its Primates 2016 meeting in Canterbury, the Anglican Communion chose yest...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Fruitcake Making, Home, and LGBT Folks in the Church: An Advent Meditation Noting the Total Silence of Pope Francis About LGBT People in Uganda

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A brief report to all of you on a dreary post-U.S. Thanksgiving weekend in which we've had enough rain to warrant two arks instea...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Readers Write and I Respond: "The Whole Idea of Ordinary Church Gives Me the Hives" and "The Walls Are the Problem: They Enclose, Hamper, Restrict Conversations"

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In what follows, I want to catch up on some "personal" sharing — to pick up threads of previous discussions that have been ...
Friday, May 8, 2015

The Story of the Refusal of the Episcopal Cathedral in Orlando to Baptize the Son of a Gay Couple: My Reflections

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For a variety of reasons, I've been following with some interest the story of the refusal of Anthony Clark, dean of the Episcopal...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Amicus Brief of Catholic Bishop of Arkansas Calling for Continued Ban on Right to Same-Sex Civil Marriage vs. Amicus Brief of Former Episcopal Bishop of Arkansas

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I had promised some time ago (to Chris Morley, in particular, and Chris has kindly reminded me of this promise) to share something ab...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Blog Talk: A Serving of Appetizing Bites from Around the Blogosphere

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Once again, with a bow to Fred Clark's wonderful Slacktivist blog, from which I'm shamelessly borrowing, a serving of savory me...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Mark Silk to Ross Douthat: What about the "Nones" and the Growth of Non-Denominational Churches?

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At his Spiritual Politics blog, Mark Silk engages Ross Douthat's argument that liberal churches are withering on the vine--and h...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Ross Douthat's Catholics Win, Episcopalians Lose Meme: Let Us Make-Believe Together

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The Episcopal Church USA holds its triennial convention, at which it approves the use of rituals to bless same-sex unions, and within ...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

The Lutherans Come Through: Why the ELCA Decision Matters

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As many of you know, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America voted on Friday to remove impediments to ministry for gay church members liv...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Poor Rowan Williams: The Moral Conundrum Facing the Churches Today, Through Gay Lives

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Two days ago, I challenged the poor-Rowan Williams meme now developing in centrist Catholic circles (and in centrist Christian circles in g...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The Poor-Rowan Williams Meme and Catholic Centrists: Unearned Superiority

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I have to get something off my chest. I’m irritated, frankly, by the poor-Rowan Williams meme developing in centrist Catholic circles , in ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Bedford, Texas or Anaheim, California: The City of God vs. the City of Man in Contemporary Anglican Orthodoxy

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Wow. Little did I know when I was blogging earlier today about the Christ-vs.-culture debate in the Anglican communion that the Most Revere...

Christ or Culture: Framing the Anglican Debate about Gay and Women's Rights

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Recent commentary (e.g., here ) about what’s happening in the Episcopal Church asks whether it’s church or culture: do churches stand again...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

When Us Doesn't Mean Us: The Archbishop of Canterbury on the Place of Gays in the Episcopal Church

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In a recent NY Times article about the meeting of the Episcopal Church USA now underway in Anaheim, Laurie Goodstein quotes the Archbishop...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Recent News: Prop 8, Church of Scotland, Mainline Clergy and Gay Issues, and Obama and Human Rights

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Because of the long weekend and yesterday’s holiday in the U.S., many readers may have taken a temporary break from reading the news and the...